Below is the command that can be used via the mongo terminal to set an expiry time for collections (a TTL):
db.log.events.ensureIndex( { "status": 1 }, { expireAfterSeconds: 3600 } )
How do I do this from my code in Node.js using mongoose?
Below is the command that can be used via the mongo terminal to set an expiry time for collections (a TTL):
db.log.events.ensureIndex( { "status": 1 }, { expireAfterSeconds: 3600 } )
How do I do this from my code in Node.js using mongoose?
In Mongoose, you create a TTL index on a Date
field via the expires
property in the schema definition of that field:
// expire docs 3600 seconds after createdAt
new Schema({ createdAt: { type: Date, expires: 3600 }});
Note that:
createdAt
to the current time when creating docs, or add a default
to do it for you as suggested here.
{ createdAt: { type: Date, expires: 3600, default: Date.now }}
this code is working for me.
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let currentSchema = mongoose.Schema({
id: String,
name: String,
packageId: Number,
age: Number
}, {timestamps: true});
currentSchema.index({createdAt: 1},{expireAfterSeconds: 3600});
Providing a string to expires
also works nicely with Mongoose if you do not want to deal with the expire time calculation and improve the overall readability of the schema.
For example here we are setting the expires
to 2m (2 minutes) and mongoose would convert to 120 seconds for us:
var TestSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
name: String,
createdAt: { type: Date, expires: '2m', default: Date.now }
});
Mongoose would create an index in the background and auto set the expireAfterSeconds
to in this case 120
seconds (specified by the 2m).
It is important to note that the TTL process runs once every 60 seconds so it is not perfectly on time always.
There is a npm library - 'mongoose-ttl'.:
var schema = new Schema({..});
schema.plugin(ttl, { ttl: 5000 });
you can see all the options of this library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose-ttl